The Conquest of America
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: January 15, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780061320958
First sentence: MY SUBJECT-the discovery self makes of the other-is so enormous that any general formulation soon ramifies into countless categories and directions.
Description: Description. The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spaniards' conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico and the Caribbean.